¶ What's new
¶ Release Notes: Operation: Multiverse - May 2025
This release includes foundational improvements to user company access, visibility controls, and quoting flows— primarily built to support multi company and team expansion.
🔄 Company Switching
Easily switch between companies or divisions without logging out. Admins can now toggle between organizations directly in-app to streamline multi-company workflows.
🛡 Scoped Access Based on Teams
Team-based visibility ensures users see only what matters to them. You can assign users to teams enabling enhanced visibility and team based filtering.
✏️ Buyer Update Quote – V2
Buyers can now update or upload custom quotes on behalf of suppliers. Supports ITB, No Quote updates, and custom quotation file uploads for flexibility.
🔍 Persistent Filtering on RFQ Listing
Your last-used filters are now remembered. Filters applied on the RFQ listing page persist for a smoother workflow.
📦 PO Confirmation Flow – Small Tweaks
Fewer missteps in PO acknowledgments. POs can’t be acknowledged while buyer reviews changes; date change requests auto-acknowledge once approved by the buyer.
🧩 Parts Catalog – Part visibility enhancements
Part status’ are easier to view and access in sourcing. All members can search across the company database to find the latest status about any part throughout the RFQ and PO process.
📬 Supplier Notification Digest
Reduce inbox clutter for your suppliers with daily summary emails. Buyers can now set RFQ and PO follow-up notifications to be sent as a single daily digest to suppliers, improving communication without overwhelming their inbox.
¶ Release Notes: Operation: Horizon - May 2025
✨ Dashboard Revamp
Get a quick, comprehensive overview of key activities with our redesigned dashboard, which presents vital information in an intuitive layout upon login for clearer insights at a glance:
- 🚚 Consolidated Updates: Save time by finding all of your updates conveniently grouped in one central location.
- 📝 Personal Note Section: Enhance personal organization with the new ability to add private notes, visible only to you.
- 🏷️ Overall RFQ/PO Status and Custom Tagging: Improve organization and filtering by viewing high-level statuses for each RFQ/PO and applying custom tags like “Urgent” or “Phase 1” for enhanced visibility into their lifecycles.
📦 Partial Qty Shipment Tracking
Accurately track orders fulfilled in multiple parts by recording and monitoring individual partial quantity shipments against a single purchase order with access to. a comprehensive log of all shipment activities.
📄 RFQ Summary .PDF Export for Compliance
Simplify compliance documentation by generating a PDF summary of an RFQ with a single click, suitable for audit trails or external requirements.
💰 Support Up to 6 Decimal Places for Prices
Achieve greater precision in pricing, especially for high-volume/low-cost items or specific currencies, as all price fields now support and display values with up to six decimal places.
🤫 Ensure Non-Buyer Roles Only Notified by Email for Internal Chat Messages
Reduce distractions for non-buyer roles by streamlining internal chat notifications to be sent exclusively via email.
🔒 Restrict Non-Buyer Roles to Limited View Access for PO module
Maintain clarity and control by enabling a restricted view for non-buyer roles—only show them the information they need, ability to chat and nothing more.
Customer Care Enhancement: Route Supplier Replies to Relevant RFQ/PO
Improve communication flow and response times as supplier email replies to system-generated notifications are now automatically routed to the corresponding RFQ or PO, alerting the relevant buyer. Implemented in this sprint:
- All PO email notificationsQ/A message email notificationRFQ reply-to for quoting (already existing)
Remaining RFQ email notifications are planned for the subsequent sprint
Parsers were also tested for three suppliers:
- Groupe Corte Inox
- Tsubaki
- Laser AMP
¶ March Release Notes
Supplier Quote OCR Parsing - New Deployments and Enhancements
We're excited to announce the expansion of our automated quote parsing capabilities to several new suppliers. This feature automatically converts supplier PDF quotes into digital format within Axya, streamlining your quote management process.
New Supplier Deployments:
- Multifab
- Usinage FR
- Nitek
- JIT Laser
- Groupe ULTRA
- Metal XP
Key Benefits:
- Automated PDF quote digitization
- Reduced manual data entry
- Improved accuracy in quote processing
- Faster quote turnaround time
Want to streamline your quote processing? If you have suppliers who typically submit quotes via PDF and you'd like to automate this process, contact our customer care team to learn more about enabling this feature.
New Feature: Total Price Verification
Our OCR parsing system now automatically validates total prices during quote processing. This new feature helps identify any discrepancies between line items and total amounts, ensuring quote accuracy and reducing potential pricing errors.
Requests and Orders listing - Performance improvement
The loading speed has been improved by over 500% from 5 seconds down to under 1 second!
Custom RFQ Status Filtering
You can now filter RFQs by status directly from the RFQ list page. This new filter lets you zero in on what you need in just a few clicks.
RFQ Creation ownership assignation
During the collaboration of RFQ preparation, you can now assign the owner before sending the request!
Ability to pin up to 3 pages in the topbar
Some of our power users navigate a lot between the Requests, Orders and Suppliers page and with the revamp of the topbar, the page to page navigation has increased the number of clicks for them. To remedy this, we have added an advanced feature to pin up to 3 pages from the dropdown menu to be fixed on the topbar!
Support line items multi-column sorting
You can now sort line items by multiple columns to better organize and analyze your data. For example, sort by Category and then by Price to quickly compare similar items.
Fixes:
- Persist RFQ filters affects orders filters
- Improve user experience during advanced RFQ/PO table filtering
- erp line item status issue
- PO supplier filter issue
- Currency lowercase issue
- add received on to po line item status
- Supplier awarded filter fixes
- Change uploaded files alignment to vertical
- Display PO name over Last viewed marker glitch
- Add line item action type tags for added and deleted lines from PO
¶ February Release Notes
PO Analytics Module - V2
We're excited to introduce the V2 of our PO Analytics Module, designed to give you deeper insights into your purchasing data. Reach out to us to activate the module!
Key Features:
- Spend analysis (Sent, Received, Expected to receive)
- Supplier engagement (Volume transacted, Acknowledgements, PO revisions)
- On-Time delivery
- Custom Filters(Time range, Buyers, Suppliers, Currency)
- Custom extracts for internal reporting
Excel Quote Template Revamp
The excel quote template has been revamped with a new layout and color theme to help suppliers efficiently provide their quotation and improve the quality of submission.
Before:
After:
Display if the supplier has seen buyer messages in Q/A
During the communication of ongoing RFQs and POs, buyers can now see when suppliers last viewed their messages; whether in the platform or by email.
Customer Care Onboarding - Email Tracking
We have developed an internal tool and onboarding workflow for customer care to ensure suppliers are receiving email notifications gracefully in their inbox prior to the first RFQ/PO submittal during the onboarding process.
Customer Care Onboarding - Ability to BCC yourself on supplier sent notification
Since system notifications are sent from Axya's mailbox, buyers are unable to see the email notifications that suppliers are receiving. We have developed a feature to tag yourself in BCC of any email communication that are generated from the system.
Bug fixes/misc improvements:
- PO State:
- Refined PO AT_RISK Transition Logic to ensure accurate and consistent state transitions based on follow-up behavior and timing.
- Simplified the logic for determining when a PO should be marked as AT_RISK: 24 hours after the acknowledgment follow-up's send_date.
- 48 hours after the PO's send_date if the follow-up is muted or disabled.
- If the follow-up is muted but an offset is configured: The PO will be marked AT_RISK after the offset + 24 hours from the send_date. If the follow-up is muted and no offset is configured: The default 48-hour rule should apply. If the offset is zero, it falls at risk after 12h.
- UPDATED (Revision) state takes precedence e.g the PO won't transition to AT RISK if the above criteria met.
- Fix PO state issues when a purchase order is not acknowledged and the delivery date is past due; The AT Risk state in this case takes precedence even though the delivery date is past due
- Fix translations in PO states
- PO Status improvements:
- Added a new Canceled status when a purchase order is cancelled. The cancel status will be displayed in the archive listing.
- Added a new Received status when all lines of the purchase order are received.
- PO Followup settings:
- Honor the flag is_mute_acknowledgment_followup_enabled in supplier settings to mute the followup. Currently, Customer case cannot mute the acknolwedgment followup for a given supplier.
- ERP Integration (all integrations)
- When a PO line is marked as completed, the line status become Received
- If all lines are marked as completed, the overall status of the PO become Received including the status of the lines
- Add the PO additional comment in the new PO email notification for suppliers
- Add the additional file attachments in the new PO email notification for suppliers
- Supplier POC issue between PO and RFQ contacts
- Infor integration: Bug in synchronising the modified date
- Integration:Add cache mechanism to track if the request is being called at the same time
- Support OCR upload on the buyer side
- Custom field quote data not appearing in quote comparison tab
- Quote comparison: Lead time section should be hidden in case of custom Quotation
- My Supplier > Responsiveness issue in Groups
- Draft duplication issue in Project Drafts
- Line items becomes vanished when we mark as Shipped
- User can not enter "," and "." when entering unit price values in 2 locations (RFQ quote update and PO draft creation)
- Genius Integration: The subtotal in the purchase order PDF is not being updated after a revision on Axya
- Genius Integration: Revision email is not sent when the purchase order is modified in the ERP
- do not update part files when a PO is created from an existing contracted rfq
¶ December & Jan Release Notes
RFQ Integration Genius
The integration offers automation to synchronize the data exchange between your suppliers and your ERP system as you collaborate with them on Axya. This means up-to-date part price and lead time history that you know have passed through a proper RFQ process. The integration also supports automatic engineering file synchronization to ensure the supplier has the right documentation throughout the procurement process.
PO Draft page improvements
- Updated the UI to match the project RFQ draft experience
- Improved part file management and file bulk file upload functionality
- Improved the supplier selection and point of contact management
Auto Quote Parsing for RFQ
We have developed a technology which converts your supplier quotes to be digitally transformed from .pdf into a quote on Axya. During the conversion, we will also flag any discrepancies between the part list to be sure the quote matches well with your request.
Improvements:
- POs linked to contracted RFQs to include the suppliers quotation information as a separate bundle
- Tweak the logic when the PO acknowledgement follow-up setting is set to = 0
- Suppliers are now notified by email when the buyer cancels a PO
- PO integration Genius: Inform buyer when Genius generates a $0 sub-total during the PO Revision flow
Technical debts:
- Remove outdated features from the UI
- Email History Cleanup - Database management
- [Migrate Datagrid v5] Project Part Info Table
- [Migrate Datagrid v5] NDA Table
- [Migrate Datagrid v5] Create Multi Contract Table
- [Migrate Datagrid v5] Quotation Extra Fields Table
Bug fixes:
- RFQ creation form was initialized after modifying the part list
- Displaying a GENIUS PROMPT on a non-genius client
- Sub-total is showing previous RFQ data when navigating to other RFQs
- For reduced screen, the panel options include every module, even if the customer doesn't have access to them
- When adding a POC onto an ongoing PO, the supplier POC receives the RFQ notification instead of the PO notification
- Top Bar Search excludes RFQs that contain no parts from the search results
- POC are not updating when a PO linked to an RFQ is sent to the supplier
- Quote sub-total is showing previous RFQ data when navigating to other RFQs
- RFQ filter are not working correctly
- sorting/filtering of our PO/RFQ tables are not working well
- Null in Quote Parsing
- Suppliers -> Edit distribution list -> Add user -> Empty user inserted
- Lead time section should be hidden in case of custom Quotation.
- UI issue in Projects RFQ Section
- custom field quote data not appearing in quote comparison tab
- email parsing error for rfq creation
- Notification bug: User did not receive email notification on Dec. 9th from this internal chat communication
- RFQ Design issues
- Additional Files issue in case of Order Creation
- Parts becomes vanished when a supplier mark an order as shipped
- INFOR - duplicate part issue
- Table date sorting is not working correctly
- Bug on the order status not matching the line status
- Duplication of PO lines
- Endless follow-ups sent on PO
¶ 27 Nov 2024
🌟 Feature Showcase
Feature Showcase
RFQ Integration with ERP System :The integration automates data synchronization between suppliers and the ERP system, ensuring up-to-date part pricing and lead time history validated through the RFQ process. Additionally, it features updated file management to ensure suppliers always have access to the latest engineering files.
PO Draft Page Improvements : The PO Draft page now features an enhanced UI aligned with the RFQ draft experience, improved part file management with bulk file upload functionality, and streamlined supplier selection and point of contact management.
Supplier Targeting Per Module : Buyers can now segment supplier target points of contact for Requests and Orders, tailored to their company's specific configuration.
🐞⚙️🎨 Misc bugfixes/improvements 🐞⚙️🎨
- RFI listing tweaks in buyer request page
- Add ASL: Remove generic email address from search result + Axya staff
- Viewer access should not have the access to Add/delete/edit POC
- Error of "project not found" when buyer access try to modify part list of the RFQ
- The attachment in the split email notification to the supplier is wrong
- RFQ extended notification email to include redirect to portal
- Buyer see pre-filled values in quotation modal when a quote is awarded to another supplier
- Qty column added in quotation table inside quote tab
- New PO email notification/New message – Add {{ target_profiles }} variable
- flag @VirtualRep when buyer views supplier profile that is outside of buyer's current ASL list
- As a normal Buyer | I am not able to see Add Supplier button under the Suppliers Page.
- Expose EUR currency for RFQ
⚙️🎨 Genius integration improvements ⚙️🎨
- Revision trigger from app and from Genius
- Ability to delete a PO by deleting it from the ERP
- Failure notification (Missing Vendor Code or User)
- The a supplier confirms a PO, items will be automatically confirmed
- PO confirmation overrides the PO document
¶ 14 Dec 2023
🌟 Feature Showcase
Feature Showcase
PO Collaboration: Buyers can invite and share POs with colleagues for increased visibility, communication and notifications with suppliers throughout the PO lifecycle.
Orders Page - Table Customization: All table columns can be re-arranged and resized, all changes will be remembered even when you log-off and come back later.
Orders Detail Page - Table Customization: All table columns can be re-arranged and resized, all changes will be remembered even when you log-off and come back later.
Filter by Supplier - PO Tables: Filter all purchase orders based on the supplier(s) targeted for enhanced order management
Contact Management - Multiple Points of Contact: Buyers can manage which supplier points of contact should receive notifications on an RFQ and PO basis.
Set Main Business Contact - Supplier Profile: Suppliers can add a main point of contact for business that will be displayed on their profile in the directory.
Premium Supplier Visibility - Directory: Premium suppliers benefit from enhanced visibility within the map view of the directory with green pins indicating their availability
🐞⚙️🎨 Misc bugfixes/improvements 🐞⚙️🎨
- All collaborators have access to the global search bar and message notification center
- The engineering role has been enhanced with the ability to create projects, requests and modify part lists during active RFQs
- Ensure company logos are not cropped in directory by forcing the image to be contained within the available space
- Added phone number and address as mandatory within the registration flow
- Always create a draft purchase order when there are failures automatically parsing POs
- Draft RFQs will only be created when there is user input
- Django admin performance improvement for staff users
- Genius Integration of Laserax's PO
- Hotfix - Display standard PO columns for buyers by removing custom fields unless specifically requested
- Hotfix - Adapt contact management change for custom PO parsers (Meloche/Laserax)
- Hide quote comparison info when prices are to be hidden
¶ 4 Dec 2023
🌟 Feature Showcase
Feature Showcase
Manual PO creation: Purchase orders can be created within the "Orders" Page from scratch.
Sending emails on behalf of the buyer - Email Integration: This integration allows all notifications your suppliers will receive triggered from the application will be sent using your email address. This mitigates the risk of notifications being filtered into spam.
Advanced Quote comparison Improvement – Custom fields: Buyers using custom project templates can select and award suppliers using the advanced quote comparison feature.
Automatic PO Parsing Technology – Custom Fields: Our parsing technology for scanning and generating purchase order details now supports displaying custom fields in your PO .pdf.
RFx/PO Management – Last Opened Flag: As you navigate through your requests and orders, keep track of where you were last with the "Last Opened" flag next to each request in the listing.
🐞⚙️🎨 Misc bugfixes/improvements 🐞⚙️🎨
- Revamped purchase order follow-up logic: The system could not always be 100% sure a follow up was required. We revamped the structure to resolve this uncertaint
- Collaborator notification issue fix – Collaborators were not receiving new message notifications when there wasn't an existing communication
- Part descriptions were not being displayed for the supplier after the request was submitted
- Quote comparison tab is disappearing while loading quote tab
- Hide supplier view, ITB and quote submission data for private RFQs
¶ 23 Oct 2023
🌟 Feature Showcase
Feature Showcase
Advanced Quote Comparison: Skip manual comparisons and identify the most cost effective suppliers in an instant! The advanced quote comparison solution saves you time and gives you all of the information you need to make data driven decisions when negotiating with your suppliers.
Axya Newsfeed: As the procurement/manufacturing landscape is rapidly evolving, it can be tough to stay informed. We will keep you up to date with real-time, curated and tailored news updates, events and update you when new manufacturers join the network!
PO Module - Mark a shipment as shipped (on behalf of your supplier): This improvement allows buyers to mark individual part shipments as shipped within the multiple PO shipment tracking module solution. This provides you the flexibility to keep your orders up to date when your supplier confirms to you another way as they are ramping up on the solution with you.
Download all supplier submissions in one click!: At the click of a button, download a copy of all of your suppliers submissions organized per supplier for your analysis and record keeping.
🐞⚙️🎨 Misc bugfixes/improvements 🐞⚙️🎨
- Message notification center improvements - Notifications are considered read at the user level instead of at the company level
- Pagination was not visible within marketplace requests page
- Send email notification when RFI submission is received with proper redirection
- Supplier quote template showing part list inverted from buyer part list
- Buyer Global search bar - UI change
- Reset password - user experience improvements
- Supplier company profile links added in connection request and NDA features
- Add date format descriptions to date fields within PO part tables (YYY-MM-DD)
- Improved documentation tracking for Addenda submittals
- Improved file nomenclature for addenda attachments in email notifications
¶ 25 Sep 2023
🌟 Feature Showcase
Feature Showcase
Message notification center: Stay informed and respond quickly to all new message notifications from your suppliers. View new messages, history of past notifications and navigate with ease. Use the notification center to efficiently communicate!
Supplier connection requests: Suppliers within the premium network can send connection requests with you for potential business opportunities!
New Collaborator Role - Engineering: Tired of the back and forth coordinating technical questions between your engineering support and your supplier? Remove the middleman by inviting your engineering colleague to collaborate on your request! Simply provide the email and select the engineering role when sharing!
Unlimited file size uploads for RFx: Fed up with the relentless struggle against size restrictions, the never-ending zipping of files, and the anxious hope that they'll safely reach your suppliers? With one click, attach and send RFx and RFx addenda files to all your suppliers hassle-free, slashing turnaround times. No more file size worries or slow uploads.
Add RFx/PO description in portal: All notes provided by the buyer will be included in the online portal!
¶ 8 Aug 2023
🌟 Feature Showcase
Feature Showcase
Distance filtering within the Axya Network Directory: Working with suppliers that are located closer to your business can help reduce shipping costs and delivery times. That is why we added the ability to filter and sort based on distance to help with your search when shortlisting potential candidates for outreach.
Your Axya's recommended suppliers!: Simply describe your need or upload technical files and/or pictures. Our search engine and our team of experts will instantly recommend 5 to 10 suppliers that have the best fit!
¶ 19 Jun 2023
🌟 Feature Showcase
Feature Showcase
Improved buyer search in the Axya Network Directory: Suppliers looking for new opportunities can search your profile and reach out to you for new business opportunities. They have a new and improved user-interface and ability to search based on keywords or location.
Connect with buyers: Suppliers that fit in your niche can send you a message to connect for potential opportunities.
Suppliers profile revamp: Showcasing what suppliers have to offer could not be easier now that we have revamped the supplier profiles in an appealing interface! Search and add new and available suppliers to your list!
New logo and topbar: We have brought a fresh new look and logo to our interface and removed our clunky sidebar into a streamlined top bar! This will improve how information is viewed and provide a cleaner experience.
¶ 1 Jun 2023
🌟 Feature Showcase
Feature Showcase
Invite a colleague: We have improved the process for inviting a colleague and made the feature more accessible. Simply add the email address of your colleague and they will receive an invitation by email to join the company in seconds.
¶ 25 May 2023
🌟 Feature Showcase
Feature Showcase
Get access to available suppliers from the network: Interested to know if there are suppliers in the network that are available and open to new opportunities but don't know where to look? You can now open your request to our premium suppliers in the network in one click.
¶ 04 April 2023
🌟 Feature Showcase
Feature Showcase
BOM Revision: Change is inevitable, and we understand that. We've designed a efficient process for you to swiftly revise your Bill of Materials (BOM) and promptly inform your suppliers, guaranteeing they're equipped with the most up-to-date and excellent information available.
RFx Collaboration (new colleagues with restricted viewer): Simplify collaboration by adding new colleagues and technical focal points to the platform. You can control their access to facilitate direct communication with suppliers.
Converted lead time: Tired of manually adding dates to a calendar to know if the lead time meets your required reception date? We do the conversion for you for each submission so you can compare with ease!
Global search: When you need to find a request on Axya because you want to check up on an ongoing request or dig in the archives for information; use our new global search! This should help you jump in and out of Axya!
¶ 16 March 2023
🌟 Feature Showcase
Feature Showcase
Multiple Project Templates: We know buyers often have to manage multiple requests from various suppliers when sourcing products or services. To allow you to effectively manage these requests, you can setup customizable and import templates in Axya to streamline your process with your suppliers!
Supplier Portal: We know it can be difficult to centralize your communication and receive quotes in a standardized manner with your suppliers. We have solved this problem by allowing your suppliers to receive and drop their quotation in our new login-less portal!
Automatic Follow up: No more forgetting who you need to follow up with or when you need to do it. With our new automated follow up feature, you can set it and forget it knowing that our system will remind the right suppliers at the right time!
What's new announcements: Axya has a new way to communicate and keep you up to date with all of the changes we are introducing on the platform based on the feedback you provide.
¶ 28 February 2023
🌟 Feature Showcase
𝗥𝗙𝗤 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 We all know you can't always be there to manage your requests and rely on your colleagues to back you up when you are away from the office. Now, you can collaborate by sharing the request; giving them full visibility to view, manage and take decisions while you are on the beach(or under the weather).
𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗿 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗟𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 In order to be sure the right people are being tagged on your requests, you can now view and manage who shall receive notifications on your requests as well as invite new contacts in case there are changes.
𝗙𝗶𝗹𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗟𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 When you are looking for a specific request amongst your ongoing requests quickly, it can be time-consuming to search manually. We have introduced sorting and filtering so you can narrow down your search!
🔒 Security
Feature Showcase
Two-Factor Authentication (2FA): We're excited to introduce a new layer of security for your Axya account. You can now activate Two-Factor Authentication (2FA), providing an additional safeguard to protect your account.
⚙️ Misc
𝗖𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗮 𝗙𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗙𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗘𝘅𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 The beta testing of our Catia file extraction technology is going great, so far the benefits highlighted are phenomenal:
- 92% faster data extraction with 0 copy-pasting errors
- More precise part list makes the sourcing less error-prone
- Enriched knowledge base for a more accurate supply chain monitoring
- Suppliers love the workflow as the parts have much more information
- The drawings don't need to keep after the part's enrichment
¶ 15 February 2023
🌟 Feature Showcase
Feature Showcase
Improved Request Lifecycle Management: Keeping track of all your requests can be difficult, especially when engineering requirements change. You can now organize your requests that are on hold and leave a note for yourself to follow up later.
Custom Part filtering: We noticed your sourcing requirements often require submitting multiple RFQs on a supplier per supplier basis. We have introduced the ability to filter your part list based on your custom classification to send each RFQ package quickly.
⚙️ Performance
Part importing from ERP for large list:The platform can now handle large part list imports with ease in order to better support our enterprise clients. You will be able to see the progress in real time!
¶ 15 December 2022
🌟 Feature Showcase
Feature Showcase
Consolidated export for your quotation history: We have introduced the ability to export the consolidated quotation history of your RFQs as you receive them. We know the job doesn't end after the contract is awarded and you have to update your ERP with this information, so we made it easy to do so!
Parts Catalog Feature: Whether it is to prepare your procurement budget for management or submit requests to source previously sourced parts, we know procurement managers spend a lot of time to find pricing history and who to procure from. We have developed a database that centralizes your existing part history and updates automatically after each purchase across all users; so you don't have to!
Search and Bulk select all parts in BOM Manager: Enjoy the added flexibility of searching within your BOM to filter requests based on your custom criteria, bulk select all and send your request into a single or multiple RFQs.
¶ 20 November 2022
🌟 Feature Showcase
Feature Showcase
Choose between a single or multiple supplier strategy: One of the key questions to ask when creating a supply chain strategy is whether to buy from one source or more. There are pros and cons of a single supplier sourcing versus a multi-supplier sourcing strategy, we now offer the flexibility to the buyers to have the conversation and take the best decision. This is very useful if a buyer wants to bundle lots of parts within one single RFQ, but still keep the flexibility of allocating it to multiple suppliers.
Exchange files during the RFQ Process: Questions can come up during the RFQ process and sometimes there is additional information required to be shared between buyer and supplier. You can now attach files during the Q/A process and send them over with your reply! This additional flexibility allows buyers and suppliers to always centralize information inside their procurement flow!
Add a New Supplier: You can seamlessly include a new supplier in your ongoing request. Upon addition, the supplier will receive a notification about the new request, ensuring their prompt engagement.
🎨 Look & Feel
Visual tweak on the embeddable RFQ creation page.
⚙️ Performance
The RFQ details page now loads very fast for huge part lists.
🐞 Bugs
Various bug fixes and cosmetic improvements on the export functionality.
¶ 19 October 2022
🌟 Feature Showcase
Feature Showcase
Prepare your RFQ at your own pace with autosaving drafts: A well-crafted RFQ is essential to a smooth and efficient process with your suppliers. As a buyer, when you prepare your RFQ and gather requirements from stakeholders, you now have the flexibility to jump in and out of your RFQ at your pace, have a colleague look over your request, and prepare your list of vendors before dropping the RFQ!
[Enterprise] Part import functionality for big part lists: Whether your part list is already on your ERP or you need to create a new list of 10 or more parts, creating them manually simply won't cut it. This is why we have given some love to our import feature to have an unlimited number of parts to be created in the same time that it takes to create a few parts manually. This feature is only available to enterprise customers but we are bringing the functionality to our standard workspace very soon! Importing parts is now blazing fast and you can focus on procuring the parts!
🎨 Look & Feel
Even more polishing on the supplier grouping feature was added.
⚙️ Performance
Improved Loading time for the Contracts page when the list of contracts gets large.
🐞 Bugs
Various bug fixes on the RFQ flow
¶ 14 September 2022
🌟 Feature Showcase
Feature Showcase
Group and Organize your Suppliers: Being able to rapidly target and contact the right supplier for a job is critical for good procurement operations. However, it's not easy to do so with traditional tools like email or excel spreadsheets when multiple suppliers are targeted.We've improved the supplier's section where you can now create your own custom groups to organize and simplify your vendor selection process during RFQ creation.
🎨 Look & Feel
RFQ Creation keeps getting better: Collecting the right information to send an RFQ (i.e. drawing, parts, suppliers' contact info) can be a slow process for complex orders and very redundant work for smaller ones. We have now improved our RFQ creation workflow so that we can create RFQs faster than before by fetching all of the required information in a smooth flow. You can now create your RFQ from the main RFQ page and always stay in context with the rest of the work. The new flow allows you to search for existing parts or create new ones directly on the RFQ page (same for suppliers). The grouping features we've discussed earlier can also be leveraged over here to invite clusters of suppliers in one swoop!
⚙️ Misc
4000+ Suppliers Available for Search: We've launched our free tool for industrial companies to find suppliers effortlessly.